Libros de Mario Benedetti (4 libros)

Dos obras clave en la trayectoria literaria de Mario Benedetti. Esta mañana 1949) y Montevideanos (1959) son dos recopilaciones en las que se recogen sus mejores relatos, los más representativos, los que más claramente han definido al autor ante varias generaciones de lectores. De hecho, no son obras idénticas. En la primera, el autor es muy joven: ya posee un lenguaje propio, desde luego, pero también exhibe hasta con cierto orgullo literario las huellas de la influencia ajena, los testimonios de la tradición. Montevideanos, en cambio, expresa ya con toda exactitud la voz necesaria y...

Inventario uno is a compilation of Mario Benedetti's entire poetic career between 1950 and 1985: Solo mientras tanto (1950), Poemas de la oficina (1956), Poemas del hoyporhoy (1961), Nocion de patria (1963), Proximo projimo (1965), Contra los puentes levadizos (1966), A ras del sueno (1967), Quemas las naves (1969), Letras de emergencia (1973), Poemas de otros (1974), La casa y el ladrillo (1977), Cotidianas (1979), Viento del exilio (1981), and Geografias (1984). Some of the poems that were later turned into songs appear in their two versions -- poem and song -- each one included in the...

In this collection of short stories there are issues such as the anxious await by employees for new management that will approve salary increases, the calm awakening of a man on his day off from work, and a woman telling a man that she is the mother of his child. These most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s concise and clear prose.

This book is a marvelous collection of short stories, stories to be read in bed; perhaps on those nights when sleep eludes us, on those where we want to let our dreams take flight, or, maybe on those nights when we want to love… Isn’t it a fact that the bed we read in is also the one in which we sleep, dream and love? Some of the authors included are: Francisco Ayala, Mario Benedetti, Carlos Fuentes, Almudena Grandes, Javier Marías, Juan José Millás, Rosa Montero, Juan Carlos Onetti, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas and Albert Sánchez Piñol.